The Microsoft Cloud OS for SAP Markus Kruse SAP Solutions Principal EMEA markus.kruse@microsoft.com
Agenda Microsoft: The platform of choice to run SAP Microsoft Cloud OS for SAP Workloads Customer Examples Summary Resources
Microsoft: Platform of Choice for SAP ~80.000 SAP installations on Windows Server ~40.000 SAP installations on SQL Server 75% 50% 25% 0% 1994 1998 2009 2013 % of new SAP installations
Strong future for Industry Standard Servers Rough SAPS Rating of different servers: 2-socket Server: ~67K SAPS @ ~15kEUR 4-socket Server: ~133K SAPS @ ~50kEUR 8-socket Server: ~260K SAPS @ ~120kEUR Impressive price/performance ratio for SAP customers Source: http://www.sap.com/solutions/benchmark/sd2tier.epx
Microsoft Cloud OS for SAP Workloads
Microsoft Cloud OS Cloud OS is Microsoft s framework and strategy for cloud management and IT delivery Includes most of the Microsoft products that are leveraged by SAP deployments already like Windows Server, System Center, and SQL Server Utilizes one solution that runs on customer premise, in service provider datacenters and in Azure, Microsoft s cloud Technology based on Windows Server and Hyper-V Management based on System Center tools to manage assets distributed over the different deployment locations/forms
Windows Server 2012 (R2)
Windows Server 2012 (R2) Hyper-V Scalability Improvements System Host VM Cluster Resource Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Improvement Factor Logical Processors 64 320 5 Physical Memory 1TB 4TB 4 Virtual CPUs per Host 512 2,048 4 Virtual CPUs per VM 4 64 16 Memory per VM 64GB 1TB 16 Active VMs per Host 384 1,024 2.7 Guest NUMA No Yes - Maximum Nodes 16 64 4 Maximum VMs 1,000 8,000 8 Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V can run the largest SAP workloads virtualized!
Impressive SAP on Hyper-V on SQL Server benchmark Database 1 * DB HP ProLiant BL460c Gen8, 2 processors / 24 cores / 48 threads, 256 GB main memory Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Database Instance 1 virtual machine using 48 virtual CPUs Windows Server 2012 SQL Server 2012 Dialog/Update/ Message/Enqueue 11 * DB HP ProLiant BL460c Gen8, 2 processors / 16 cores / 32 threads, 256 GB main memory Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V 328,120 SAPS 60,000 SD Benchmark users certified on Dec 6, 2013 Source: http://www.sap.com/solutions/benchmark/sd3tier.epx
SQL Server 2012
Highlights of the SQL Server Releases
SQL Server 2012: SAP related features New Features: AlwaysOn xvelocity Memory-Optimized Columnstore Index Windows Server Core Support Auditing Enhancements Enhancements: Data Compression Backup Compression Support for up to 15.000 table partitions Transparent Data Encryption Dynamic Threshold for update Statistics Extended support for online index building
SQL Server Column Store with SAP BW SQL Server 2012 Column Store Deployment accelerates BW Queries and Improves Storage Efficiency. Customer example from Homepro (Retail, Thailand):
SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn AlwaysOn Unified high availability and disaster recovery solution Synchronous data movement Availability groups Multi-subnet AG Listener Backup from secondary
Database Compression Customer Experiences Page compression rates experienced by Quanta on some of their productive tables: Table Compression rate COSP 80% GLPCA 89% COEP 87% RESB 90% ACCTIT 87% MSEG 87% FAGLFLEXA 88% Up to 90% compression: Significant storage cost savings BSIS 90% COSB 84% GLFUNCA 89% More details: http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/case_study_detail.aspx?casestudyid=4000010953
Database Compression Customer Experiences CLP China Light Power Utility company in Hong Kong with ~2.4 million customer contracts. Annual Revenue: ~USD 7.5 Billion Compression of the SAP IS-U system resulted in: Reduction in DB volume from 1.85TB to 500GB (-74%) Reduction of DB response time/dialog step from 150ms to 100ms (-33%) Reduction of nightly batch job runtime from 3:15h to 2:05h (-36%) Backup size reduction from 307GB to 210GB (-32%) Backup run time reduction from 69min to 32min (-54%) More details: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/saponsqlserver/archive/2011/02/21/clp-optimizestorage-improve-performance-amp-streamline-dba-tasks-with-sql-2008-r2-pagecompression.aspx
SAP ERP system at Microsoft SAP ERP system was moved into production in 1996 on SQL Server 6.0 Used SQL Server Beta releases in production for every single SQL Server Development cycle in the last 14 years Runs all the most important business processes of Microsoft Today: Live in 67 countries 3,750 named GUI users, 100.000 internal web users plus external web users, around ~2.200 concurrent Users 250.000+ batch job executions per month 2.8+ million dialog steps per business day (DIA+RFC) 110+ million business transactions per month (results often in multiple DBMS transactions) 0.7 seconds user response time 99.995% Windows/SQL availability since introduction SQL Server Database Mirroring in 2005 Ran nearly 20% of its time on SQL Server Beta releases since 2005 Already running productive on SQL Server 2014
How MSIT runs SAP Production Sync AlwaysOn File share for Cluster Quorum 1 2 3 Main Site Production Availability Group on production DBMS cluster Log Shipping SAP production CI cluster containing File Share quorum for DBMS cluster Test 0 SAP test CI cluster containing File Share quorum for test DBMS cluster DR Site 5+ 7+ Tb EMC CX3-80 SAN Sync AlwaysOn 7+ Tb EMC CX3-80 SAN Test Availability Group on test DBMS cluster SAP Volume Test and Integration System Image of production 21
SQL Server 2014
Hybrid cloud solutions
SAP and Azure
Windows Server in all Deployment Forms In Microsoft s Cloud-OS strategy Windows Server is the technology base for all the deployment forms shown below For customer s SAP solutions Physical, Virtual and IaaS are interesting
SAP and Azure Public Cloud Deploying SAP landscape in Hybrid-IT landscapes using Microsoft Cloud-OS framework
SAP on Azure support announcement http://global.sap.com/news-reader/index.epx?category=all&articleid=22875&searchmode=c&page=1&pagesize=10
SAP on Azure VM CPU's RAM SAPS* A5 2 14 1.500 A6 4 28 3.000 A7 8 56 6.000 A8 8 56 11.000 What it is: Microsoft Azure IaaS for the following SAP solutions: A9 16 112 22.000 VM CPU's RAM SAPS* D11 2 14 2.325 D12 4 28 4.650 D13 8 56 9.300 D14 16 112 18.600 SAP applications based on Netweaver 7.x (SAP Business Suite, ECC, PLM, CRM, SRM, SCM, etc.) on Windows/SQL Server, Windows/Oracle and Windows/SAP ASE (Sybase) SAP Hana Developer Edition SAP Business All In One Other SAP solutions (Business Objects, HANA Enterprise, Linux/Oracle, etc.) will be certified in the near future. What it is not: It is not a PaaS nor a SaaS offering Microsoft will not resell SAP solutions and SAP will not resell Azure, the model is bring your own license
Use Cases with SAP on Microsoft Azure 40+ customers run SAP on Azure today Use cases How Microsoft Azure helps How organizations benefit Deliver automated Disaster Recovery with low RPO and RTO Make timely changes to SAP workloads by development teams Fund intermittently used development and test infrastructure for SAP workloads Increase data center capacity to serve new SAP project requests Provide consistent training environments based on templates Archive historical systems for auditing and governance SQL AlwaysOn allows asynchronous mirroring data to Azure and Azure Recovery Services replicates onpremise Virtual Machines to Azure and orchestrates failover and failback. 200 300 times faster infrastructure provisioning and rollout compared to on-premises; faster changes by SAP application teams. Supports the ability to stop development and test systems at the end of the business day. Frees on-premises data center capacity by moving development and test for SAP workloads to Microsoft Azure without up-front investments. Ability to store and use pre-defined images of the training environment for new virtual machines. Supports migration of physical machines to virtual machines that can be switched on when needed. RPO and RTO is reduced and the cost of ownership of DR infrastructure is reduced. While the DR systems replicating the only cost incurred is storage Increased agility and the ability to provision instances within 20 minutes. Savings of as much as 40 75 percent in hosting costs by exercising the ability to stop instances when not in use. Flexibility to shift from capital to operational expenditures. Cost savings by provisioning only the instances needed for training, and then deleting them when the event is complete. Savings of as much as 60 percent due to cheaper storage and the ability to quickly spin up systems based on need.
The Microsoft Platform for SAP Customers: Paving the road for Hybrid IT and Public Cloud 00 Trust Agility Innovation Traditional NON-VIRTUALIZED Virtualized With Hyper-V Private CLOUD Public CLOUD
NEC Corp., Japan About NEC: Large IT Services Provider based in Japan Revenue 2012: $38,8 Billion, 142,000 employees About the project: Consolidated SAP system for 100+ business processes Replacement for several older UNIX-based core IT-systems Standardization to the Microsoft Platform One of the largest SAP systems in the world 120.000 SAP users At peak times: 7.000+ concurrent SAP users and 1.5 Million transactions per day Database size >25 TB
Japan Airlines About JAL: Japan s second largest airline 122 aircrafts (+46 orders), more than 44 Mio. passengers / year About the project: JAL implemented SAP systems on Windows/SQL Server over the last 10 years In 2008 JAL implemented Airplane Maintenance module of SAP based on Windows/SQL Server 2005 platform System is used at point of airplane docking and undocking in all airports JAL is heading to System is used to administrate 500K spare parts in different worldwide locations System is used to keep maintenance and repair records of each JAL airplane Quote from JAL: Without this system being up and running our airplanes would not be able to leave the airport Live for more than 18 months without a single unplanned outage HA configuration: Onsite Windows Clustering DR site using SQL Server Log-Shipping
Quanta, Taiwan About Quanta: Largest computer manufacturer in the world Revenue: over $30 Billion, 30,000 employees Developed out of traditional OEM to ODM business About the project: Started SAP R/3 on Windows/SQL in 2000 Approach of having one SAP ERP system per manufacturing location Running FI, SD, PP, MM, PP, Logistics functionality, heavy.net integration with Intranet applications 2007 start of project to consolidate 9 SAP ERP systems into one system DBMS hardware: HP DL980 (around 100K SAPS) SAP application layer: 20 x 2-socket servers based on Xeon 5570 Total system size ~700K SAPS In meantime large database growth of around 600GB/month. Could get solved with SQL Server database compression Database volume ~7TB, growing around 200GB/month Everything fully page compressed Based on Compression rates achieved, estimated to be around 25TB uncompressed
Belgian Railways About Belgian Railways: Railway provider for Belgium. Largest SAP installation in Belgium. About the project: Migration from Solaris/Oracle platform HW was operating at capacity Looking for a reducing cost Total environment: >660.000 SAPS Entirely migrated to Windows, SQL Server and Hyper-V
Miele, Germany About MIELE: Global premium brand of domestic appliances and commercial machines in the field of laundry care, dishwashing and disinfection Revenue (2012): over $3.5 Billion, 16,700+ employees About the project: Migration from AIX/Oracle to the Microsoft Platform Main reasons for the migration: Reduction of hardware costs, Standardization of hardware and operating system platforms Availability improvements of the SAP Landscape Already in production using virtualized SAP application servers on Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V and guest OS Windows 2008 R2 for one of MIELES most critical SAP system Total SAPS of the entire SAP landscape: 225,000
Lockheed Martin, USA About LOCKHEED MARTIN: One of the world s premier global security and aerospace companies Revenue (2012): over $47.2 Billion, 120,000+ employees About the project: Migration from Unix/Oracle to the Microsoft Platform Main reasons for the migration: Cost reduction Scalability improvements Availability improvements of the SAP Landscape Return on Investment (ROI) for the migration project in 3 years Windows Server 2008 R2, SQL Server 2008 R2 3,300 named SAP users, 1,400 concurrent SAP users DB size: 3 TB (before migration), ~800 GB after migration (74% reduced database size)
STRONG FUTURE SQL SERVER WELL ESTABLISHED Summary: Why Microsoft for SAP?
Deliverables from Microsoft Contact with Microsoft Headquarters Connection with Microsoft IT and SQL Server Development resources for sharing best practices on running SAP on the Microsoft Platform SAP on SQL Blog Valuable advise and insights from the SQL Development Team from SAP HQs in Walldorf: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/saponsqlserver/ Platform Assessment Workshop Evaluate benefits and roadmap to migrate SAP workloads to Windows/SQL Server/Azure
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